Former Prime Minister, Lloyd George

Faith and fulfilment: Our Führer is coming!

"I have now seen the famous German leader and also something of
the great change he has effected. "Whatever one may think of his
methods - and they are certainly not those of a parliamentary
country, there can be no doubt that he has achieved a marvelous
transformation in the spirit of the people, in their attitude
towards each other, and in their social and economic outlook.

He rightly claimed at Nuremberg that in four years his movement
had made a new Germany.

It is not the Germany of the first decade that followed the war
- broken, dejected and bowed down with a sense of apprehension
and impotence. It is now full of hope and confidence, and of a
renewed sense of determination to lead its own life without
interference from any influence outside its own frontiers.

There is for the first time since the war a general sense of
security. The people are more cheerful. There is a greater
sense of general gaiety of spirit throughout the land. It is a
happier Germany. I saw it everywhere, and Englishmen I met
during my trip and who knew Germany well were very impressed
with the change.

One man has accomplished this miracle. He is a born leader of
men. A magnetic and dynamic personality with a single-minded
purpose, as resolute will and a dauntless heart.

He is not merely in name but in fact the national Leader. He
has made them safe against potential enemies by whom they were
surrounded. He is also securing them against the constant dread
of starvation which is one of the most poignant memories of the
last years of the War and the first years of the Peace. Over
700,000 died of sheer hunger in those dark years. You can still
see the effect in the physique of those who were born into that
bleak world.

The fact that Hitler has rescued his country from the fear
of repetition of that period of despair, penury and humiliation
has given him an unchallenged authority in modern Germany.

As to his popularity, especially among the youth of Germany,
there can be no manner of doubt. The old trust him; the young
idolise him. It is not the admiration accorded to a popular
leader. It is the worship of a national hero who has saved
his country from utter despondence and degradation.

To those who have actually seen and sensed the way Hitler
reigns over the heart and mind of Germany, this description
may appear extravagant. All the same it is the bare truth.
This great people will work better, sacrifice more, and, if
necessary, fight with greater resolution because Hitler asks
the to do so. Those who do not comprehend this central fact
cannot judge the present possibilities of modern Germany.

That impression more than anything I witnessed during my short
visit to the new Germany. There was a revivalist atmosphere. It
had an extraordinary effect in unifying the nation.

Catholic and Protestant, Prussian and Bavarian, employer
and workman, rich and poor, have been consolidated into one
people. Religious, provincial and class origins no longer
divide the nation. There is a passion for unity born of dire
necessity.

The divisions, which followed the collapse of 1918, made
Germany impotent to face the problems, internal and external.
That is why the clash of rival passions is not only deprecated
but temporarily suppressed.

I found everywhere a fierce and uncompromising hostility to
Russian Bolshevism, coupled with a genuine admiration for the
British people with a profound desire for a better and
friendlier understanding of them. The Germans have definitely
made up their minds never to quarrel with us again, nor have
they any vindictive feelings towards the French. They have
altogether put out of their minds any desire for the
restoration of Alsace-Lorraine.

But there is a real hatred and fear of Russian Bolshevism,
and unfortunately it is growing in intensity. It constitutes
the driving force of their international and military policy.
Their private and public talk is full of it. Wherever you go
you need not wait long before you hear the word
'Bolshevismus', and it recurs again and again with a
wearying reiteration.

Their eyes are concentrated on the East as if they are
watching intently for the breaking of the day of wrath.
Against it they are preparing with German thoroughness.

This fear is not put on. High and low they are convinced
there is every reason for apprehension. They have a dread of
the great army, that has been built up in Russia in recent
years.

An exceptionally violent anti-German campaign of abuse
printed in the Russian official Press and propelled by the
official Moscow radio has revived the suspicion in Germany that
the Soviet Government are contemplating mischief." -
David Lloyd George, Daily Express, 17.9.1936

WINSTON CHURCHILL:

"In fifteen years that have followed this
resolve, he has succeeded in restoring Germany to the most
powerful position in Europe, and not only has he restored the
position of his country, but he has even, to a very great extent,
reversed the results of the Great War. . . the vanquished are in
the process of becoming the victors and the victors the
vanquished. . . whatever else might be thought about these
exploits they are certainly among the most remarkable in the
whole history of the world." - Winston Churchill, 1935

". . . and the achievement by which the tables have been turned
upon the complacent, feckless and purblind victors deserves to
be reckoned a prodigy in the history of the world and a prodigy
which is inseparable from the personal exertions of life thrust
on a single man. . .

Those who have met Hitler face to face in public, business, or
on social terms, have found a highly competent, cool,
well-informed functionary with an agreeable manner, a discerning
smile and few have been unaffected by a subtle personal magnetism.

Nor is this impression merely the dazzle of power. He exerted it
on his companions at every stage in his struggle, even when his
fortunes were in the lowest depths. . .

One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic
achievement. If our country were defeated I should hope we
should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and
lead us back to our place among the nations."
- Winston Churchill, 'Step by Step', p.143

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW:

"It was evident that Germany
needed only a resolute and clear-headed leader to denounce
the Treaty; declare her determination to assert her full
equality with the Powers, and refuse to be disarmed, plundered
and chastised under the pretext of reparations and 'war
guilt', to rally to him every living soul whose native
language was German, and at the same time take a great step
towards peace in Europe by proving that neither France nor
England nor the United States dare outrage humanity by
attempting military occupation of her territory on the model
of the old partitions of Poland; in short, that instead of
Europe being plunged into war she would be dragged back from
the brink of it by Germany.

Herr Hitler seized the hour and said the word, and France
and England immediately climbed down, preserving their dignity
by lecturing the Chancellor solemnly on his naughty
behaviour as they descended.

Mr. Vernon Bartlett was soundly berated by the Foreign
Office for imploring all lovers of peace to believe in the
perfect sincerity of Herr Hitler's assurance that a free
Germany would be a peaceful Germany, but 95% of the listeners
who wrote to him wanted to have him appointed Foreign
Secretary. When I said that Herr Hitler's action was right and
inevitable, the storm of abuse that was about to bust on me
was suddenly checked by Mr. Lloyd George saying exactly the
same thing.

Europe breathed again. The beginnings of a British
popularity set in for Herr Hitler as they had set in years
before for Signor Mussolini, in spite of all the liberal
protests, and it only remains to watch the results of the
forthcoming general election in Germany, in which it is
inconceivable that a single vote should be cast against him,
even by the angriest German Jew or German Communist." -
George Bernard Shaw. Playwright. 'The Observer'
November, 5th, 1933

SIR ARNOLD WILSON, M.P.:

"Health statistics in Germany are
satisfactory. Infant mortality has been greatly reduced and is
considerably inferior to that in Great Britain. Tuberculosis and
other diseases have noticeably diminished. The criminal courts
have never had so little to do and the prisons have never had so
few occupants. It is a pleasure to observe the physical aptitude
of the German youth. Even the poorest persons are better clothed
than was formerly the case, and their cheerful faces testify to
their psychological improvement that has been wrought within
them. Economic conditions in Germany, abstraction made of the
influence exerted by rearmament, are steadily progressing.
Unemployment has greatly decreased."

G.E.O. KNIGHT:

"Altogether, Herr Hitler has worked
miracles for the new Germany. I anticipate that in a very short
time, the Chancellor will have shown the world more than it ever
bargained for in its wildest efforts to crush the new regime." -
G.E.O. Knight, In Defence of Germany

JACQUES BAINVILLE, l'Action
Francais:

"Is Hitler policy the result of his own
unaided efforts? Or is it influenced by his counsellors? At
bottom, this is more or less indifferent; then he who is
capable of following sound advice is just as clever as he who
gives such advice.

Hitler is undoubtedly lucky. Hitherto he has succeeded in
everything, since even in his most impulsive moments he is a
prudent calculator, and he shapes his foreign policy with the
same bold imagination as he shaped the policy which was
foreordained to make him the master of Germany's destinies.

Thus he is always ahead of other governments, who are invariably
a day or an idea - let us hope not an army - behindhand. When
our ministers were asked if they were prepared to negotiate with
the Head of the German Government they replied evasively that
they were certainly ready to do so, but only in full agreement
with our allies. At that very time Hitler had already concluded
his non-aggression pact with Poland.

Poland's leading newspaper writes; 'Hitler is the first
German statesman who has found the right language at the right
time. Hitler has always stressed that any treaty signed by him
is worth fare more than the Treaty of Locarno. For Stressseman
represented political parties which no longer existed, whereas
Hitler enjoys the confidence of the whole of Germany expressed
by the votes of over forty million electors.' "

AMERICAN MANIFEST DESTINY:

"These financial and industrial wonders
had been performed without foreign loans. Of these miracles,
Churchill gave this tribute: "Whatever else may be thought about
these exploits they are certainly among the most remarkable in
the whole history of the world." - American Manifest Destiny,
Conrad Grieb. Examiner Books. N.Y.

DOUGLAS REED:

"Germans in their country are not less
well cared for than the English people in theirs, but better.
You are faced with a country immensely strong in arms and
immensely strong in real wealth - not in gold bars in a vault
of the national bank, but industry, agriculture, the thrift and
energy of the work people, and the conditions of life they enjoy.

In German now they have a mighty organisation, equipped
with full powers, for improving the lot of the work people in
factories and workshops. Their engineers and social workers and
artists go into the factories and see what needs to be done.
They say that a shower room, recreation room, a restaurant, a
medical clinic, a dental clinic is needed and these ere
provided. They have a civic sense, a social conscience, a
feeling of the community of German mankind - in spite of the
bestial concentration camps - which you lack."

AND OF THOSE 'CONCENTRATION
CAMPS' ANOTHER ENGLISHMAN REVEALS ALL:

"In August, 1933 there were seven thousand
'political prisoners' (Britain's prison population is in
excess of 50,000) in Germany of which about 700 are Communists.
Most were convicted of political crimes as we define them, but
rather of anti-social behaviour and crime.

The discipline in the camp was of the robust kind. Every
man had some kind of work to do, but this was not always
enforced. The camp rose at 6.00am and all lights were out at
9.00pm. The meals consisted of breakfast, dinner, supper with
meat served daily except on Fridays. There was a dispensary
attached to the camp and a German doctor was in charge. Severe
cases of illness were sent to the local hospital.

Various trades were carried on inside the camp such as
carpentry, tailoring and shoemaking. Part of the camp was set
off for bathing. Shower baths and facilities for sunbathing
were shown to me. There was also a splendid sports ground.

The sleeping compartments consisted of wooden beds and straw
mattresses, with three blankets for each prisoner. The working
hours were from 7.00am to 11.30am and from 1.00pm to 6.00pm. A
library was in the course of being introduced.

Visitors were allowed once a week, and were received in the
dining room which accommodated some 300 people. There were
apartments set apart for music and dramatic performances. In
addition to receiving free board and lodging, each prisoner was
drawing 10DM to 12DM per week, which represented his
unemployment allowance pay.

Instruction in ethics, religion, the new form of government
in Germany, history, languages, was given daily to those who
desired to attend. There was little or no crime among the men
in the camp. Good order prevailed among all classes. The guards
ate the same food as the prisoners, and were subject to the
same disciplines as the internees, although they were
government officials. One of the guards was a prince of the
House of Hesse.

Letters and parcels were subject to censorship. In not one
case out of many thousands received had it been found necessary
to destroy any parcel or letter forwarded. Newspapers were
permitted and smoking allowed. When a prisoner desired to
light his pipe or cigarette, he had to go to a guard detailed
off to supply lights for the prisoners, as no matches were
permitted prisoners.

Services were held every Sunday and the majority of the
opportunity. No objection was raised by the authorities to my
taking photographs of both camps and internees.

The men looked in splendid physical condition. Having heard
so may dreadful stories of brutal treatment being meted out to
Communists in this particular camp, I asked some of the men to
confide in me and tell me the truth of those allegations. Not a
few laughed at 'the bloody capitalist liars in your
country.' I took fifteen men at random and asked them to
strip in my presence. I wanted to see if they bore any marks of
violence on their persons. I saw nothing indicative of bad
treatment." - G.E.O. Knight, In Defence of Germany,
(who was allowed complete freedom of movement in all camps)

THE MORAL MAJORITY:

"I think that it must be admitted that
National Socialism has done a great deal for Germany. It has
undoubtedly cleaned up Germany in the ordinary moral sense of
the word. The defeatism, the corruption so manifest a
characteristic in the days after the war has disappeared, at
any rate from public view. It has given discipline and order
and a sense of purpose to the great majority of young people
who in earlier days did not know where to go or what they were
living for." - His Lordship, the Marquess of Lothian,
British Ambassador to Washington, June 29th, 1937

"The spectacle of Germany today is a tremendous experience.
Fifteen years after the war in which the allied powers thought
they had destroyed her, Germany is on her feet again. As compared
with 1922 and 1931, when I last saw Germany, the change is
miraculous. The people are confident, enthusiastic and
courageous. They have recovered their morale. In 1931 the German
people were going to pieces. But now they are themselves again,
no doubt about that! The masses of the people are increasingly
with Hitler. I have been fooling myself all along that this was
not so, but now I know it is so." - John H. Holmes, Pastor.
Community Church. N.Y Times, July 12th, 1935

"Last May, I returned, bringing my family for another
sojourn, after two years spent in other European countries. I
found a Germany which has advanced miraculously from the point
of 1933. I found political solidarity, a wholesome tone in
the life of city dweller and country dweller alike. I found
living costs materially reduced and an unmistakable optimism
on every hand. In every quarter I found the same answer to my
questioning: Profound belief in the genius of the Leader, love
and admiration for him as an individual. My observations have
covered a wide range of social classification. I have talked
with the humblest type of labourers, with merchants,
professional men. I have yet to discover a dissenting voice to
the question of loyalty to the Fuehrer. My two young daughters
are attending German public schools and are receiving an
education which in thoroughness could be equalled in few
countries." - John L. Garvin. The Observer

THE BERLIN OLYMPICS, 1936

SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION

Despite his unprecedented Olympic performance and the widely published
- but false - story that Hitler had snubbed Owens after he won his
medals, he returned home to face a racial struggle in his own country.

"When I came back, after all the stories about
Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country and I
couldn't ride in the front of the bus," Owens said. "I had to go
to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted . . . I wasn't
invited up to shake hands with Hitler . . . but I wasn't invited
to the White House to shake hands with the President, either.

"Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures
who were black," Owens said. "But neither of us could do national
advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the
social stigma we lived under."

The Hitler snub story is explained this way: After the opening
day of the 1936 Olympics, the winners were escorted to the
dictator's box to be congratulated.

But International Olympic Committee President Count
Henri de Baillet-Latour of Belgium told Hitler he had no business
congratulating any of the athletes. After that, Hitler left the
stadium each day without congratulating anyone. The Tampa
Tribune Tuesday, April 1,1980

Sixty-years of fanciful embellishment,
ignorance and mischievous comment has created an image of
National Socialist Germany that owes little to reality. A
typical example of such distortion is woven around the 1936
Berlin Olympics.

This international event is often mentioned in the context
of it being the Olympics at which the American Negro, Jesse
Owens, 'humiliated Nazi Germany and destroyed the myth of
Aryan superiority.' What are the true facts?

Jesse Owens, a fine athlete was the citizen of a country whose
racism would have made Hitler blush. The contrast between the
two countries would have been quite remarkable for this humble
and likeable ex-cotton picker.

In Hitler's Germany, Jesse Owens could share a bus or tram
ride with white people. Treated equally in all respects before
the law, he could sit in a cinema next to whites, use public
toilets, and dine in restaurants, stay in hotels without any
discrimination being shown towards him. There was much that he
could do in Hitler's Germany that was forbidden at home in the
United States.

In the United States Negro athletes were required to eat apart
from their white fellow athletes. If they were allowed to share
the same hotel at all, which was unlikely, it would be necessary
for them to use the tradesmen's back entrance.

There were no Negroes on any major league baseball team and
there were no Negro swimmers. This was of course in the
so-called enlightened north. In the southern states there was
no possibility of a Negro being allowed to participate in any
sport unless he competed solely with other Negroes.

For Jesse Owens, his days in Hitler's Germany must have been
happy indeed. There he received a great deal of pre-Olympic
media hype and the German people idolised him.

"Once at the stadium, the mere appearance of Jesse Owens neatly
moulded head from some pit below the stands would cause sections
of the crowd to break out in chants of, 'Yes-sa Ov-enss! Yes-sa
Ov-enss!' - Richard D. Mandell. The Nazi Olympics

"Some mornings at the Olympic village the athletic hero of the
hour was awakened by amateur photographers who flocked outside
his bedroom window to click at the athlete before he could
gather poise for one of his many appearances before the mobs in
Berlin." - Richard D. Mandell. The Nazi Olympics

One of the common tales that is perpetuated
in the media is that at the 'Nazi Olympics', Adolf Hitler
snubbed Jesse Owens by refusing to shake his hand.

The reality is far different. Hitler on the first day of the
Berlin Olympics did indeed shake the hands of several successful
competitors from Germany and Finland. It was a mistake made in
good faith. That evening the Fuhrer received a message from
Count Baillet-Latour, President of the International Olympic
Committee. It was respectfully pointed out to the German Leader
that as he was merely a guest of honour at the Games, he should
congratulate all - or none, in public at least.

Hitler, in common with all other national leaders before and
since chose the latter as being the most sensible course.
With 156 gold medals being awarded at various locations and
times, it was not physically possible to personally
congratulate every winner. Jesse Owens was not personally
congratulated by the Fuhrer; nor were any of the other
successful competitors, white or otherwise . . . at the
request of the President of the I.O.C.

It is interesting to note that Jesse Owens own President
Roosevelt, failed to honour this great athlete and did in fact
refuse to meet him, despite there being no such protocol
restriction imposed upon him.

But afterwards, Jesse Owens said: "When I passed the
Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at
him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticising the
man of the hour in Germany."

Afterwards, Owens and his coach, Larry Snyder on arrival in
London complained that they felt like 'trained seals'.
They were subjected to a barrage of 'fraudulent publicity
offers', so much so that they refused further engagements.
Time proved Larry Snyder and Jesse Owens right. None of the
offers came to anything but big name promoters like Eddy
Cantor had received a great deal of favourable publicity.

Back home in the United States, Jesse Owens was treated
like a freak and an animal. "Before curious crowds he
raced horses (and won). He ran against cars, trucks, dogs, and
baseball players with a head start." - Norman Katkov.
Jesse Owens Revisited. The World of Sport, p.289

His was a thirties America that had seen 26 lynchings - all
Negroes; an America where Negroes had to use separate public
toilets and public transport; went to all-black schools, and
couldn't mix with white people in restaurants, cinemas, hotels,
stadiums, etc. Hitler's Germany and the German people must
have seemed very welcoming by contrast.

FOR THE RECORD:

Hitler's Germany won a total of 101
medals (41 gold) and 223 points. Their only credible rival was
the United States which though three times bigger in population
won 40% fewer medals and points. (25 gold medals - 4 to Jesse
Owens - and just 132 points). The U.S.A's size and its reliance
on coloured athletes did little to reduce its humiliation, which
in fact justified Hitler's claim to the potential of Aryan
superiority.

Hitler's Germany (population 80 millions) won more gold medals
than the United States, Great Britain, India, Canada, Argentina,
France, and Norway together; a combined population of 1,160
millions: 14 times bigger than Germany's. If this is humiliation,
perhaps we could do with a dash of it ourselves.

PEACE GETS THE NELSON'S EYE

"Step by step I have
arrived at the conviction that the aims of Communism in Europe
are sinister and fatal.

At the Nuremberg Trials, I, together with my Russian colleague,
condemned Nazi aggression and terror.

I believe now that Hitler and the German people did not want
war. But we declared war on Germany, intent on destroying it,
in accordance with our principle of balance of power, and we
were encouraged by the 'Americans' around Roosevelt.

We ignore Hitler's pleadings not to enter into war. Now we
are forced to realise that Hitler was right. He offered us the
co-operation of Germany; instead, since 1945, we have been
facing the immense power of the Soviet Union. I feel ashamed
and humiliated to see that the aims we accused Hitler of, are
being relentlessly pursued now, only under a different label." -
British Attorney General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, Stourbridge,
March 16th, 1984 (AP)

COMPLETE DISARMAMENT OFFERED BY
HITLER:

On May 17th, 1933, in a speech to the
Reichstag, Hitler offered complete German disarmament, if
others would do likewise. There was no response.

After October 14th, 1933, Hitler again put forward proposals
which included arms limitation, particularly the elimination of
weapons designed for use against civilian populations, and the
preparation of a mutual non-aggression pact. France said
'non!' Others did not responds at all, and France,
Britain and Russia increased their arms build-up.

On May 21st, 1935, Hitler sought to limit the dropping of
gas, incendiary and explosive bombs out side of battle zones.
He was also ready to agree to the abolition of the heaviest
artillery and tanks, and to accept any limitation on the size
of naval vessels. Again, there was no response save for France
making an aggressive anti-German alliance with the Soviet Union.

On March 31st, 1936, Hitler formulated a nineteen-point peace
plan that included the reduction of arms, and to bring aerial
warfare under the protection of the Geneva Convention. His
proposals were ignored.

The repeated rejection of Hitler's proposals to assure equitable
peace in Europe would indicate that the Western powers were
preparing for armed conflict against Germany, a conflict from
which only the allies could benefit. Lord Lothian had predicted
such a war in a speech on June 5th, 1934.

HITLER PREFERRED CONCILIATION:

"It must be possible for our two great
people (Germany and France) to join together and collaborate in
opposing the difficulties which threaten to overwhelm Europe." -
Adolf Hitler, March, 1935

THE ALLIES, NOT HITLER, BROKE THE
TERMS OF THE VERSAILLES TREATY

"It was not Germany that unilaterally
broke the Versailles Treaty - it was unilaterally broken by
those powers who could not decide to carry out in their turn the
disarmament which was imposed on Germany and which, in accordance
with the Treaty, should have been followed by them. The
Versailles Dictate was thus rendered invalid in regard to the
points at issue. . . The German Government, consequent on the
failure of the other states to fulfil their disarmament
obligations, have on their part renounced those articles of the
Versailles Treaty which constituted a discrimination against
Germany for an unlimited period of time owing to the one-sided
burden this laid upon Germany contrary to the provisions of the
Treaty." Adolf Hitler

"This Treaty brought in the first division of Europe, namely a
division of the nations into the victors on the one side and
vanquished on the other, the latter nations being outlawed."
Adolf Hitler, Reichstag speech, Fourth Anniversary

"When the German people trusting to the promises made
by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their
arms in November, 1918, a fateful struggle thereby came to an
end for which perhaps individual statesmen, but certainly not
the peoples themselves could be held responsible. The German
nation put up such an heroic fight because it was sincere in
its conviction that it had been wrongfully attacked and was
therefore justified in fighting. . . the Peace Treaty of
Versailles did not seem to be for the purpose of restoring
peace to mankind, but rather to perpetuate hatred." Adolf
Hitler

"Germany suffered most as a consequence of this Peace
Treaty and the general insecurity which was bound to arise from
it. The unemployment figure rose to a third of the number
usually employed in the nation, which means, however, that by
counting the families of the unemployed as well there were 26
million people in Germany out of a population of 65 millions
faced by an absolutely hopeless future." Adolf Hitler

"The fantastic political and economic burdens imposed
by that treaty have entirely disillusioned the German people
and annihilated its belief in justice." Adolf Hitler

"Historians will one day record that never were the
peaceful proposals of one man met with more hatred than mine.
When Germany became the example to the world of the peaceful
solution of social problems and economic difficulties, the
hatred of the Bolsheviks and capitalists, the exploiters of
nations, was turned against her. Only then did I turn to
create the new German Wehrmacht." Adolf Hitler, 1936

HESS ON THE VERSAILLES TREATY

"The masses of the German people could not
believe that a pledge so solemnly given by the supreme head of
the United States of America could afterwards be openly
ignored." Rudolf Hess, Stockholm

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

". . . then I would point out that the
League has never been a real league of peoples. A number of
great nations do not belong to it or have left it. And nobody on
this account asserted that they were following a policy of
isolation. I should also like to call attention to the fact that
up to now the outstanding feature of the League of Nations has
been talk rather than action." Adolf Hitler, Reichstag speech,
Fourth Anniversary

GERMAN COLONIES

"The German people once built up
a colonial empire without robbing anyone and without violating
any treaty. And they did so without any war. That colonial
empire was taken away from us. And the grounds on which it was
sought to excuse this act are not tenable. Moreover, Germany
has never demanded colonies for military purposes, but
exclusively for economic purposes. Therefore, as a matter of
course our demand for colonies for our densely populated country
will be put forward again and again." - Adolf Hitler,
Reichstag speech; Fourth Anniversary

1936, Hitler sent notes to the British Government advocating
outlawing bomber type aeroplanes and bombing as a means of
warfare. Anthony Eden defended the bomber as an 'effective
and humane police weapon,' in maintaining law and order
among the unruly tribes in some of the British colonies.

On April 1st, 1936, Hitler's proposals for a European
pacification plan for Europe were delivered to the Geneva
League of Nations. His proposals included the prohibition of
the dropping of gas, poisonous or incendiary bombs; the
prohibition of dropping any bombs outside fighting fronts, the
prohibition of artillery weapons over 12 miles from battle zones.

"The German Government hereby declare themselves prepared to
accede to every such arrangement insofar as it is
internationally valid."

He went on to say that he understood that Germany's economic
prosperity caused problems, and put forward a proposal that
soon, after steps being taken for mutual disarmament:

"There would be an exchange of opinions on the economic
situation in Europe."

As with all Germany's proposals for arms limitation,
non-aggression pacts, the confinement of weapons to battle
zones, etc. these proposals were also ignored.

"As one who fought in the front line trenches to other
front line soldiers throughout the world, as a Leader of the
German nation to the leaders of other nations, I ask: Must this
thing be? With goodwill and co-operation cannot we save
humanity from this?" - Rudolf Hess

SPANISH COMMENT

"If the powers in Western Europe
were not blind they would not hesitate to sign the Pact of
Non-Aggression suggested by Germany; a Pact which guarantees
the peace of Europe for a period of twenty-five years." -
The influential Spanish newspaper, A.B.C., three months
before the outbreak of war

"The ex-soldiers who are now in the German Government
honourably desire peace and understanding. I appeal to the
ex-servicemen and to men of goodwill in the governments of all
nations to give us their combined support in striving towards
this goal. In peace we desire to build in common what is
destroyed in common through war." Rudolf Hess. Speech
to ex-soldiers, Konigsberg

HITLER ON PEACE

"There is not a single German who
wants war. The last war cost us 2 million lives and seven and a
half million wounded. At such a price, this could not have been
a victory even if we had won.

What European statesman today could effect a territorial
conquest by means of war? Is it necessary to kill 2 millions in
order to conquer a territory with 2 million inhabitants? For us
that would mean sacrificing 2 million Germans - the flower of
the nation's manhood - in exchange for a mixed population that
is neither wholly German nor has much in common with Germany.
Sound common-sense is opposed to such a war." - Adolf
Hitler, Paris Soir, January 26th, 1936

"If the Germany of today takes her stand on the side of
peace she does so not because of weakness or cowardice. She
takes her stand on the side of peace because of the National
Socialist conception of People and State. In each and every war
for the subjugation of an alien people, National Socialism
recognises a process which sooner or later will alter the
inner nature of the victor - will weaken him and therewith
render him vanquished in turn. Setting aside a mere transitory
weakening of the enemy, the European states have nothing
whatsoever to gain from war of any kind, except a trifling
alteration of frontiers which could be entirely out of
proportion to the sacrifices entailed.

The blood that was shed on European battlefields during the
past 300 years bears no proportion to the national result of
the events. In the end France has remained France, Germany
Germany, Poland Poland and Italy Italy." - Adolf Hitler,
'The Thirteen Points', Reichstag Speech

"The German Government are ready in principle to conclude pacts
of non-aggression with their neighbour states, and to supplement
these pacts with all provisions aiming at the isolation of the
war-maker and the localisation of the areas of the war." -
Adolf Hitler, 'The Thirteen Points', Reichstag Speech

Referring to the original aims of the Geneva Red Cross
Convention to work towards reducing armaments, Hitler stated
his intention to extend this. ". . . In this instance the
German Government have in mind to ban all arms which bring
death and destruction not so much to the fighting soldiers but
to non-combatant women and children. . . they believe that it
will be possible to proscribe the use of certain arms as
contrary to international law and to excommunicate from the
community of mankind - its rights and its laws - those
nations who continue to use them." - Adolf Hitler,
'The Thirteen Points', Reichstag Speech

"Three times I have made concrete offers for armament
restriction. These offers were rejected. The greatest offer
which I then made was that Germany and France together should
reduce their standing armies to 300,000 men; that Germany,
Great Britain and France, should bring down their air forces to
parity and that Germany and Great Britain should conclude a
naval agreement. Only the last offer was accepted as real
limitation of armaments.

The other German proposals were either flatly refused or
where answered by the conclusion of those alliances which gave
Central Europe to Soviet Russia as the field of play for its
gigantic forces."

"If the rest of the world entrenches itself in indestructible
fortresses, builds enormous flying squadrons, gigantic tanks and
casts huge guns, it cannot consider it a menace if German
National Socialists march in columns wholly unarmed, thereby
giving visible expression of the German feeling of national
community and providing it with effective protection. . . the
German nation and the German Government have not asked for arms
at all, but only for equality of rights.

But if every other nation is allowed to have certain arms,
we are on principle not prepared to allow ourselves to be
excluded from this rule as a nation with lesser rights!

The German nation has more than fulfilled its disarmament
obligations. It is now the turn of those states that have been
increasing their armaments to fulfil their own obligations in
the same way. Germany has as much right to security as other
nations." - Adolf Hitler

"May the time not be far off when all other European nations
will come to the realisation that the primary necessity is
putting an end to the quarrels and strife of centuries and of
building up of a finer community of all peoples is: The
recognition of a higher common duty arising out of common
rights." - Adolf Hitler

MY FIRST PROPOSAL:

"Germany demands at all costs
equality with other nations, but it is prepared to
renounce all further armaments if other nations will do
the same. In other words, general disarmament down to the
last machine-gun. This proposal was not even deemed
worthy of the rest of the world as fit for a single
discussion."

"I MADE A SECOND PROPOSAL:

Germany was willing to restrict her
army to 200,000 men on the condition that other nations would
do the same. This also was rejected."

I MADE A FURTHER PROPOSAL:

Germany was prepared, provided other
nations wanted this, to renounce all heavy artillery, tanks,
bombing planes and if necessary all types of aeroplanes. But
this was also rejected."

"I WENT FURTHER and proposed to limit by international
agreement all European armies to 300,000 men. This was also
rejected."

I SUBMITTED STILL FURTHER
PROPOSALS:

Limitation of all aircraft, abolition
of air bombing and gas warfare, security for those in
non-warfare areas, abolition of at least all heavy artillery
and tanks. All these proposals were also declined. All had
been in vain." Adolf Hitler

THE RHINELAND

The German re-occupation of the
de-militarised Rhineland in 1936 is often held up as proof of
Hitler's willingness to break his word. In fact, France was
the first to break the Rhine Pact, and the Locarno and League
of Nations Agreements too, by signing a Pact with the Soviet
Union and Czechoslovakia, thereby collaborating in an aggressive
military build-up encircling Germany.

Hitler reminded the French that as early as winter, 1935/36, the
Soviet Union, with which France was collaborating, was mobilising
the world's largest army, tank and air forces along eastern
Europe's borders.

"Then a completely new state of affairs has been brought about
and the political system of the Rhine Pact had been destroyed
both in the letter and in the spirit. . . with a military pact
with the Soviet Union exclusively directed against Germany and
in violation of the Rhine Pact." - Adolf Hitler

In the same speech, Hitler offered "to negotiate with France and
Belgium for the establishment of a bilateral demilitarised zone,
proposed the conclusion of a non-aggression pact between Germany,
France and Belgium for a period of twenty-five years, invited
England and Italy as guarantors with the same inclusion of the
Netherlands should they so wish. He at the same time offered
agreements with countries to the east of Germany." Adolf Hitler,
March, 1936

These proposals were rejected.

GERMANY PLEADS FOR PEACE

"I speak in the name of the entire German
nation when I say that all of us most sincerely desire to root
out an enmity whose sacrifices are out of all proportion to any
possible gain.

The German people are convinced that their honour has remained
pure and unstained upon a thousand battlefields, just as they
see in the French soldier only their ancient but glorious
opponent. We, and the whole German nation, should all be happy
at the thought that we could spare our children and our
children's' children what we ourselves as honourable men have
had to watch in the long and bitter years and have, ourselves
had to suffer. The history of the last one hundred and fifty
years, with all its varied changes and chances, should have
taught both at least one lesson; that important and permanent
changes can no longer be purchased by a sacrifice of blood.

I, as a National Socialist, and all my followers, absolutely
refuse, however, by reasons of our national principles, to
acquire, at the cost of the life-blood of those who love and are
dear to us, men and women of a foreign nation who, in any case,
will never love us. It would be a day of untold blessing for the
whole of humanity if the two nations once and for all would
banish the idea of force from their mutual relationships; the
German nation is prepared to do this.

While boldly asserting the rights which the treaties themselves
give us, I will, however, declare equally boldly that in future
there will be for Germany no more territory conflicts between
the two countries.

After the return of the Saar Basin to the Reich it would be
insanity to think of a war between the two states. For such a
war there could no longer be, from our point of view, any
reasonable or moral excuse.

For nobody could demand that millions of young lives be
destroyed in order to correct the present frontiers. Such a
correction would be of a problematical extent and even more
problematical worth.

"The German nation has more than fulfilled its obligations with
regard to disarmament. It is now the turn of the highly armed
states to fulfil similar obligations to no less extent." Adolf
Hitler, October, 14th, 1933

A LAST CHANCE APPEAL FOR PEACE

On August, 25th, days before the outbreak
of war, Hitler made a generous and comprehensive offer of a
final understanding with England. On August, 27th, 1939, an
emissary, Dahlerus, took these proposals to 10 Downing Street
for presentation to Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign
Minister Lord Halifax. These proposals in essence were:

1. Germany would sign a Pact of Alliance
with Britain
2. Britain would act as mediator with Poland for the return
of Danzig and the corridor to Germany with Poland being
allowed the use of the port of Danzig.
3. Germany would guarantee the sovereignty of Poland.
4. Agreement on Germany's confiscated colonies.
5. Adequate guarantees for the well-being of German
minorities in Poland.
6. Germany would provide aid in the defence of the British
Empire when called upon to do so.

Britain ignored these proposals choosing
instead to guarantee Poland's unjust occupation and retention of
territory given to her as 'victors booty' following the
first world war under the terms of the Versailles Treaty.

"I hope that the outside world will realise that Hitler's
government has no idea of steering towards war, even though this
has often been asserted abroad. As Adolf Hitler himself has said,
Germany has no need of another war to avenge the loss of her
military honour, because she never lost that honour. Germany
does not want war of any kind. Germany wants real and abiding
peace." - Rudolf Hess

"I owe it to me position not to admit any doubt as to
the possibility of maintaining peace. The peoples want peace.
It must be possible for governments to maintain it. We believe
that if the nations of the world could agree to destroy all
their gas and inflammatory and explosive bombs it would be a
much more useful achievement than using them to destroy each
other." - Adolf Hitler

"National Socialist Germany wishes for peace because it
recognises the simple fact that no war would be likely to
substantially to ameliorate the state of distress in Europe.
The distress would probably be made the greater thereby. . . If
only the leaders and rulers had wanted peace, the people would
never have wished for war." - Adolf Hitler

"The Fuhrer is one of the soldiers who fought in the trenches. I
am one also. Nearly all the Fuhrer's collaborators are men who
fought in the most terrible war of all time. We know what war
is, and for that reason we are lovers of peace." Rudolf Hess

"The world which we are not harming in any way, and from which
we only ask that it will allow us to go about our business in
peace, has been submerging us for months under a flood of
untruths and calumnies." - Adolf Hitler, 14th October, 1933

"The German Government has the honest intention to do everything
in its power to discover and permanently set up such relations
with the British people and State as will forever guard against
a renewal of the only conflict that has ever been between two
peoples." - Adolf Hitler, May 21st, 1935

"As far as concerns our two countries, there is no
longer any point whatsoever in dispute between Great Britain
and Germany. This, I believe, became clear to everybody after
the conclusion of the German-English Naval Pact, on June 18th,
1935, which marks the first step on the road to a practical
peace policy." Adolf Hitler, June 18th, 1935

Agreeing to limit German naval strength to just 35% of Royal
Navy tonnage - in respect of her Empire commitment - and 15%
below that of France, he said: "There has only been one
struggle between these two nations, and the German Government
has the straight-forward intention to try and form, and
maintain, a relationship with the British people and State
which will for all time prevent a repetition of this."

"The British Heir Apparent, his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, recently uttered a word which has called forth a warm
re-echo in our country. He said: 'No one is more fitted to
stretch out the hand of friendship to Germany than we, the
English ex-servicemen who fought them - and have forgotten all
that.'

"I believe that I cannot better supplement this thought of our
English comrades than by saying: We gladly grasp your hand in
friendship."

BRITISH/GERMAN EX-SERVICEMEN FOR
PEACE

"Through your visit you have
found a road which ought to lead to an understanding between
our two nations. That our people feel as we do has been proved
to you by the welcome which the population of Berlin accorded
you on your arrival. When we who had fought against one another
have now come together this may be the beginning of relations
which shall develop from country to country, from ex-soldier to
ex-soldier. And just as we who are now comrades have forgotten
the quarrel that once led us to fight one another as brave
soldiers, so it is our wish that with the passing of the years
our people will see those wounds healed which the war inflicted.
You, my English comrades, used to call us Fritz when we were
fighting against you, and we used to call you by your old
soldier name, Tommy. May both our peoples so understand one
another in the future as we, Tommy and Fritz, understand one
another now." - Reich Leader, National Socialist War
Victims Relief to a British Legion deputation visiting
Germany

"There is a tremendous desire on the part of all German
ex-servicemen for world peace. Their main desire appeared to be
the closest possible co-operation between Great Britain and
Germany. An Anglo-German organisation would perhaps be scarcely
practicable, but this strong feeling for co-operation ought to
be turned to good purpose. It is hoped in the not too distant
future to have ex-servicemen throughout the world linked
together in some way as to pursue the common objective of world
peace. In Germany it is difficult to divorce ex-service matters
from national affairs, because the present government is so
largely composed of ex-servicemen.

"The youth of Germany is obviously being trained to
regard peace as the greatest ideal, realising that the future
of civilisation depends on its maintainance." - Major
F.W.C. Fetherstone-Godley, British Legion Delegate. Daily
Mail

"Our aim is to make our people happy once more by guaranteeing
to them their daily bread. The work involved is great, and the
world should leave us to carry it out in peace." Adolf Hitler,
22nd October, 1933

"In this hour I feel it to be my duty before my own
conscience to appeal once more to reason and common sense in
Britain. I consider myself in a position to make this appeal
since I am not the vanquished begging favours, but the victor
speaking in the name of reason. I see no reason why this war
must go on. I am grieved to think of the sacrifices which it
will claim. I would like to avert them." - Adolf Hitler,
July 19th, 1940 to the Reichstag

"After the victories against Poland and in the West, I
again decided - and for the last time - to hold out my hand
to England and to point out that a continuation of the war
could only be senseless for England, and that there was nothing
to prevent the conclusion of a reasonable peace. Indeed there
were no differences between England and Germany except those
artificially created." - Adolf Hitler, November, 1941

And this time the German government was still working for a
negotiated peace and issued the following statement:

"It is quite certain that the peace which will follow
the German victories will not be of the Versailles type but
will be a peace for the benefit of all nations. The people of
those countries occupied today will regain their freedom but in
the common interests of all nations they will have to compromise
with certain legalities and conditions." - Adolf Hitler

This was Hitler's last great peace initiative which was
declined. Britain went on to suffer 350,000 dead, £25,000,000,
000,000 (in 1945 values), the loss of her Empire, Britain
impoverished and beholden to American finance, middle Europe
destroyed, and eastern Europe subjugated and enslaved by the
Soviet Union; their erstwhile allies.

"I realised that the fight was not against enemy
nations, but against international capital." - Adolf Hitler

"There you are! Unrestricted warfare in the whole
Pacific Ocean, where America really doesn't belong! And when we
make a Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia which belonged to
Germany for a thousand years, it is considered aggression."
- Joachim von Ribbentrop, Germany's Foreign Minister from his
Nuremberg cell

"Just imagine going to war over Danzig - such a world
catastrophe, just to prevent Germany from getting a piece of
territory that belonged to her, because Britain was afraid
Germany was getting too strong." - Joachim von Ribbentrop,
Germany's Foreign Minister

"Do you think gentlemen, that I am an idiot and will
let myself be forced into war because of the question of the
Danzig Corridor?" - Adolf Hitler

FRANCE ATTACKS GERMANY - GERMANY
RESPONDS

On September 3rd, 1939, Britain and
France declared war against Germany; the French piercing the
German border and occupying German territory between the Rhine
and the Moselle. Rather than retaliating, Hitler again offered
peace on October 6th, which was again rebuffed.

Fearing that a prolonged defensive war in the West along
similar lines to those fought at such appalling loss of life in
the First World War, would leave Germany weakened and vulnerable
to the Red Army waiting at Germany's eastern borders, Hitler was
forced to counter attack in the hope that the defeat of France
would bring Britain to the negotiating table.

On May 10th, with forces far inferior to those of France and
Britain, Hitler finally decided to close Germany's front door.
The French and British (BEF) armed forces were routed and a
fortnight later retreated across the English Channel on
anything that would float.

"A colossal military disaster." - Winston Churchill

"This is the end of the British Empire." - Anthony Eden

"Whilst as in all battles there were genuine tales of
derring do which were reported with understandably a little
embroidery, it was not until twenty-years after the event that
Richard Collier recounted stories never rebutted, of anarchic
servicemen abandoned by officers, drunken revelry between
French, British and Senegalese troops, mutiny; of a Kentish
Police Officer who recalled 'only too well the sight of
dispirited men hurling their rifles from the trains carrying
them from Dover." - Richard Collier, The Sands of
Dunkirk, London, Collins, 1961

The Sunday Dispatch put the success of the evacuation
down to divine intervention following a nation-wide service of
prayer following which the notoriously rough channel "became as
smooth as a pond" and "a fog descended to shield our troops from
devastating attack by the enemy's air strength." - 'The First
Casualty', Phillip Knightley, Andre Deutsch. London. 1975

"In 1962, General Sir Harold E. Franklyn, who had been a
divisional commander at Dunkirk, complained that the evacuation
had been 'over-glamourised'. He said reports of '
merciless bombing' and 'the hell of Dunkirk' were
quite ridiculous. 'I walked along the beach on several occasions
and never saw a corpse. . . there was very little shelling." -
The First Casualty, Phillip Knightley, Andre Deutsch.
London. 1975

"Never was a great disaster more easily preventable," said
Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart. Military historian who pointed
out that the German breakthrough reported as being due to
overwhelming superiority, was actually achieved with armies
inferior in numbers to those opposing them.

In fact, the 'miracle of Dunkirk' owes more to Hitler's
conciliatory stance than to the Almighty calming the waters and
placing a fog between the retreating British Expeditionary Force
and its German pursuers.

FRIENDSHIP WITH BRITAIN - 338,000
BRITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS - SAVED BY HITLER

In explaining why Hitler intervened in the
military operations to allow the escape of 188,000 British and
150,200 French troops at Dunkirk, General Blumentritt said:

"He then astonished us by speaking with admiration of the British
Empire, of the necessity for its existence and of the
civilisation that Britain had brought to the world.

He compared the British Empire with the Catholic Church -
saying they were both essential elements of stability in the
world. He said that all he wanted from Britain was that she
should acknowledge Germany's position on the continent. The
return of Germany's lost colonies would be desirable but not
essential, and he would even offer to support British troops,
if she should be involved in any difficulties anywhere. He
concluded by saying that his aim was to make peace with
Britain, on a basis that she would regard as compatible with
her honour to accept."

Blumentritt said: "The German generals in charge were
dumbfounded and outraged at Hitler's attitude in thus preventing
them from pressing an advantage which they believed would result
in the capture of the entire British Expeditionary Force. But
Hitler was adamant in his refusal and issued the most peremptory
orders for the German armoured forces to stay at a distance
while the British embarkation went on."

Thus, the success of the British retreat at Dunkirk being
described as 'the miracle of Dunkirk' owes its miraculous
nature more to the French Army fighting a rearguard retreat and
Hitler again behaving in a conciliatory way. As William Joyce
cynically put it: "England is fighting to the last Frenchman."

Very often, the Wehrmacht (and Waffen SS) found their military
advantage removed by the more conciliatory Hitler, and it was
not unknown for the armed forces to disregard such orders:

"During the pursuit of the British forces towards Dunkirk the
Leibstandarte (regiment) was ordered to cross the heavily
defended Aa Canal and seize the town of Watten. On the afternoon
of 24th May, 1940, however the Fuehrer's Headquarters
countermanded the crossing. Dietrich (Sepp) simply disregarded
Hitler's order and a few hours later his troops were over the
canal." - Heinz Hoehne, The Order of the Death's Head,
p. 481/482

It is interesting but hardly surprising to note that even
fifty years on, Hitler's Germany is held to be the aggressor in
attacking a weaker France, when the undeniable fact is that the
far more militarily powerful France - without in anyway being
threatened by Germany, invaded her neighbour and throughout the
autumn and spring 1939 - 1940 shelled German communities; in
the face of which Germany showed remarkable tolerance before
retaliating. In doing so and as the foremost British historian
A.J.P. Taylor pointed out, Hitler was motivated to do so 'only
on preventive grounds.'

THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

Likewise the myths that surround the
'Battle of Britain' have been repeated so often that
they are now accepted as gospel. It was Phillip Knightley, the
special correspondent (Sunday Times) and author who in
his book, The First Casualty - The War Correspondent as
Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker from the Crimea to
Vietnam', revealed that Britain in 'its finest hour'
was far from being the underdog of legend.

British air defence consisted of 1,416 aircraft against 963
German aircraft. Britain had the further advantage of retrieving
downed pilots and salvaging downed aeroplanes whereas German
aircraft and pilots were irretrievably lost.

". . . yet throughout the battle the RAF regularly lost
more fighters than the Luftwaffe - it was the German bombers
that swelled the score and to break even the British had to
shoot down a great many of them." which in fact he goes on
to point out owed more to the radar advantage.

Fighter pilots often found Churchill's rhetoric embarrassing,
not the least such descriptions as 'crusaders' who
'grin when they fight'. It was in many respects an
ignoble and bloody confrontation in which German pilots,
knowing that the parachuting enemy could be airborne again
within hours had no compunction about firing on them.
Similarly, the RAF had no qualms about shooting down a Heinkel
59 clearly marked with a Red Cross and civilian markings, as
it engaged itself in rescuing downed German pilots.

In fact, the only RAF pilot to win a Victoria Cross,
Flight-Lieutenant J.B. Nicholson, was wounded by the Home Guard
who mistaking him for a German pilot, blazed away at him as he
parachuted to earth.

FIGHTING ON THE BEACHES - OF NEW
ENGLAND (U.S.A)

The Duke of Windsor was appointed Governor
of the Bahamas, the gold reserves of the Bank of England were
shipped off to Ottawa, the Minister of Information, Alfred Duff
Cooper sent his son Julius to Canada - but failed to inform
everyone. Parents who could afford to shipped their families out
to America or the Commonwealth. Royal Navy ships were placed on
standby to evacuate members of the Royal Family and key members
of the government to the United States.

"In June, July and August of 1940, over 6,000 children took part
in the exodus of the rich." - The Fears that Flawed the
Finest Hour, P. Addison, Sunday Times Magazine, May
21st, 1972

"The working class began to feel, with some justification, that
the rich had plans to get out whilst the going was good." -
The First Casualty, Phillip Knightley, Andre Deutsch.
London. 1975

RUDOLF HESS AND HIS FLIGHT FOR
PEACE

"The Fuhrer does not want to defeat
England and wants to stop fighting." - Rudolf Hess on his peace
mission to England

"The decision to go was the hardest I have ever made in
my life. It was rendered easier, however, when I visualised the
endless rows of coffins, both in Germany and in England, with
mothers in dire distress following behind. I am convinced that
the mothers on both sides of the channel will have understood
my action." - Rudolf Hess

Hess was imprisoned and never released. He died under
suspicious circumstances which have never adequately been
explained, nearly fifty years on. In terms of the rank he held,
the length of imprisonment and the denial of a properly
constituted trial, the imprisonment of Rudolf Hess must rank as
the first and worst example of peace emissary detention.

"During the whole of my political activity I have always
propounded the idea of a close friendship and collaboration
between Germany and England. In the NSDAP, I found innumerable
others of like mind. This desire for Anglo-German friendship and
co-operation conforms not merely to sentiments based on the
racial origins of our two peoples but also to my realisation of
the importance of the existence of the British Empire for the
whole of mankind." - Hitler's Reply to Roosevelt. April 15th,
1939

"Now there is no doubt that the Anglo-Saxon people of Britain
have accomplished immense colonising work in the world. For
this, I have sincere admiration." - Hitler's Reply to Roosevelt,
April 15th, 1939

When asked by Joachim von Ribbentrop, his Foreign Minister, what
he should do if it came to the point of surrender, Hitler replied
that he should try to remain on good terms with Britain. "He
always wanted that you know." Ribbentrop sadly concluded.

"It is not true that I wished for war in 1939, neither I nor
anyone else in Germany. War was provoked exclusively by those
international statesmen who were of Jewish race or who worked in
the interests of international Jewry. . ."
- Adolf Hitler, Last Will and Testament. April 29, 1945

THE 'RACE NATION' DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY

"There is only one power which really counts. The power of
political pressure. We Jews are the most powerful people on
earth, because we have this power, and we know how to apply
it." - Jewish Daily Bulletin, July 27th, 1935

Adolf Hitler's election to chancellorship marked the
beginning of the end of presumptuous and unregulated Jewish
influence in German affairs. A nation without a homeland, a
nation whose frontiers are decided by its racial genes and
which maintains its nationhood whilst existing among host
nations, cannot countenance the existence of a state that
excludes them.

To the 'race nation' all other countries are a
legitimate homeland, the denial of which threatens their
existence. To the Jewish Diaspora, the world's most powerful
trading and political bloc, Hitler's election meant interruption
and interference with the world's commercial and political
cohesion in which they are heavily involved.

Furthermore, he stood alone and defiant against the tidal wave
of Jewish organised Communism then sweeping all before it. The
Communists had seized Russia and were at the bottom of civil
unrest and revolution throughout eastern Europe; Britain, France,
- the Spanish Civil War - the British dominions and the United
States. Germany alone repelled and held in check this tidal wave
of subversion and insurrection.

The 'race nation' was quick to organise economic warfare
against Hitler's Germany as a means of bringing the National
Socialist state to its knees.

WHILST HITLER WAS BEING
CONCILIATORY

1933, the year in which Hitler took power
was notable in the number of boycotts organised throughout the
world, most if not all provoked by Jewish interest groups.

The first Jewish declaration of war was
pronounced on March 24, 1933, one day after Adolf Hitler was
democratically elected by the German people through a parliamentary
vote.

"By using the new atheist exile politics they [the
Zionists] provoked and increased anti-Semitism in Europe which led
to the Second World War . . . The worldwide boycott against Germany
in 1933 and the later all-out declaration of war against Germany
initiated by the Zionist leaders and the World Jewish Congress
enraged Hitler so that he threatened to destroy the Jews . . ."
(Rabbi Schwartz, New York Times, Sep. 30, 1997).

"JUDEA DECLARES WAR ON
GERMANY"

"Judea Declares War on
Germany! Jews of all the World Unite! Boycott of German Goods!
Mass Demonstrations!" - These were all headlines in the
Daily Express on March 24th, 1933.

"March 24th, (1933) Reich leaders realised that boycott
agitation was accelerating, especially in Great Britain.
Placards proclaiming 'Boycott German Goods' spread
infectiously throughout London, and were now in the windows of
the most exclusive West End shops. Automobiles bannering
boycott placards slowly cruised through the retail districts
alerting shoppers. Everywhere, store signs warned German
salesmen not to enter. British Catholics had been urged by the
Archbishop of Liverpool to join the protest.

London's Daily Herald carried an interview with a
prominent Jewish leader who admitted, 'The leaders are hanging
back,' but the Jewish people are 'forcing its leaders on.'
Already the boycott has damaged 'hundreds of thousands of
pounds of German trade'." - Edwin Black, Jewish author.
The Transfer Agreement, (p.34)

"Fifty-thousand were gathered (March 27th,1933) in and
around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that
moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Houston,
and about seven other American cities. At each supportive
rally, thousands huddled around loudspeakers waiting for the
Garden event, which would be broadcast live via radio to 200
additional cities across the country. At least 1 million Jews
were participating nationwide. Perhaps another million Americans
of non-Jewish descent heritage stood with them." - Edwin
Black, Jewish writer and author. The Transfer Agreement,
(p.42)

"Mass meetings throughout Poland - co-ordinated to the
Congress rally - had voted to extend the Vilna boycott to all
of Poland. The three most important Warsaw Jewish commercial
organisations - passed binding resolutions to 'use the most
radical means of defence by boycotting German imports.'

"In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel
district were displaying placards denying entry to German
salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers
patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to
boycott German goods. . . " - Edwin Black, Jewish Writer
and Author, The Transfer Agreement, (p. 46/47)

"The Israeli people around the world declare economic
and financial war against Germany. Fourteen million Jews stand
together as one man, to declare war against Germany. The Jewish
wholesaler will forsake his firm, the banker his stock exchange,
the merchant his commerce and the pauper his pitiful shed in
order to join together in a holy war against Hitler's
people." - Daily Express, March 24th, 1933

"Germany is our public enemy No.1. It is our object to
declare war without mercy against her." Bernart Lecache,
President, Jewish World League

Hans Grimm quoted a leading Jew who in Australia on January
31st, said to a well known German admiral: "Herr Admiral,
you have heard that President Hindenburg has assigned the office
of Reich Chancellor to the National Socialist Hitler on the
basis of the results of the last Reichstag election?"

He continued: "Herr, Admiral. I here give you my word,
think on it later. We Jews will do everything to erase this
event from the world."

The next official declaration of war was issued in August,
1933, by Samuel Untermeyer. In July, 1933 in Amsterdam,
Untermeyer had been elected to the Presidency of the
'International Jewish Federation to Combat the Hitlerite
Oppression of the Jews.' The declaration of (Jewish) war
was disseminated throughout the world by the New York Times,
on August 7th, 1933.

"This declaration called the war against Germany, which
was now determined on, a 'holy war'. This war was to be
carried out against Germany to its conclusion, to her
destruction." - Dr. Scheidl, Geschicte der Verfemung
Deutschlands

The International Jewish Boycott Conference assembled in
Holland to discuss ways by which Jewish interests in Germany
might be protected. Referring to the Jews as 'the aristocrats
of the world' (the master race!), Samuel Untermeyer, the
President of the World Jewish Economic Federation, said:
"Each of you, Jew and Gentile alike, who has not already
enlisted in this sacred war should do so now and here. It is
not sufficient that you should buy no goods made in Germany.
You must refuse to deal with any merchant or shopkeeper who
sells any German-made goods or who patronises German ships or
shipping. . . we will undermine the Hitler regime and bring the
German people to their senses by destroying their export trade
on which their very existence depends." - C.B.S, August
7th, 1933

"Joining with Samuel Untermeyer in calling for a war
against Germany, Bernard Baruch, at the same time, was promoting
preparations for war against Germany. 'I emphasised that the
defeat of Germany and Japan and their elimination from world
trade would give Britain a tremendous opportunity to swell her
foreign commerce in both volume and profit." - Samuel
Untermeyer, The Public Years, p.347

"Hitler will have no war, but he will be forced to it,
not this year, but later on." - Les Aniles, 1934

By June, 1938, the American Hebrew was boasting that
they had Jews in the foremost positions of influence in Britain,
America and France, and that these "three sons of Israel
will be sending the Nazi dictator to hell."

"The fight against Germany has been carried out for
months by every Jewish conference, trade organisation, by
every Jew in the world. . . we shall let loose a spiritual and
a material war of the whole world against Germany." -
M. Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, Natcha
Retch, January, 1934

"We Jews are going to bring a war on Germany." -
David A. Brown, National Chairman, United Jewish Campaign

The 'Anti-Nazi League' was organised into a 'World
Economic Trade Boycott of Germany.'

"The world should cut off all relations with Germany;
trade, social and diplomatic." - Sunday Express

"It (National Socialism) was condemned to war because
it was a system which inevitably made enemies of Bolshevism and
world capitalism." - Louis Marschalko; Hungarian Write
journalist and playwright

"Before the end of the year, an economic bloc of
England, Russia, France and the U.S.A. will be formed to bring
the German and Italian economic systems to their knees." -
Paul Dreyfus of Mulhausen, 'La Vio de Tanger' May 15th,
1938

"£500,000,000 FIGHTING FUND FOR THE JEWS . . . The
battle will be fought on the world's stock exchanges. Since
the majority of the anti-Semitic states are burdened with
international debt, they may find their very existence
threatened.

A boycott throughout Europe of their export products by way
of the retailer may undermine the present uncertain economic
stability of several of the anti-Semitic countries." -
Sunday Chronicle, January 2nd, 1938

Note: Similar sanctions and boycotts were later applied to
Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and South Africa, to enforce the transfer of
power from white to coloured rule.

THE EFFECT ON THE GERMAN ECONOMY

Between January and April 1933,
Germany's exports dropped by 10%. As the boycott organised by
world Jewry spread, German trade was hit particularly hard and
during the first quarter of 1933, Germany's vital exports were
less than half its 1932 trade.

". . . if exports fell too low, Germany as a nation
would again be faced with starvation." - Edwin Black,
Jewish writer/author, The Transfer Agreement

"How many months could Germany survive once the
boycott became global, one commerce was re-routed around
Germany? The boycotters adopted a slogan, 'Germany will crack
this winter'." - Edwin Black, Jewish writer/author,
The Transfer Agreement, (p.188)

These declarations of war against what was undeniably a
friendly state and a democratically elected government, caused
the German people to react by calling for a one day boycott
(April 1st, 1933) of Jewish businesses and goods.

The power of the media to distort events is there for all to
see, in every bookshop throughout the land, sixty-years on. We
are all familiar with the repetitive stories and pictures of
this German boycott of Jewish goods; but the reasons for it
are never mentioned, nor is the fact that it was a mere one
day event.

"The Jews, taken collectively, view this war as a holy
war." - The Daily Herald, No.7450, 1939

"Even if we Jews are not physically at your side in the
trenches, we are morally with you. This war is our war and you
fight it with us." - Schalom Asch, Les Nouvelles
Litterairres, February 10th,1940

The joke doing the rounds of the British Union of Fascists
at this time was that the Jewish national anthem was, 'Onward
Christian Soldiers.'

"A few days after the British Declaration of War,
Weizmann offered the British Government 2,000 men for use in
the near East, altogether, an army of 100,000 Jewish fighters
against Germany." - Dr. Scheidl, Geschicte der
Verfemung Deutschlands

"Jewish brothers of the whole world: Let the holy
flame of vengeance burn more and more brightly in your hearts
with every hour! Be ready to act at any minute! You must do
everything in your power to destroy the economic resources of
the fascists, no matter in what part of the world you live. Go
among the most vital sections of the death-bringing industries
of the Hitlerian hangmen and cripple them with every means at
your disposal. Boycott their products everywhere! Struggle
together with the noble, self-sacrificing partisans! Develop
everywhere a fully effective propaganda for solidarity with,
and an active support for the Soviet Union. Mankind wants to be
freed of the brown plague. Do your duty in this holy war."
- International Conference of the Jews, Moscow, 1941

"When one considers that a guest-people agitates
throughout the world against the host nation, and further uses
every means at its disposal for the destruction of its host
nation, then one cannot escape the idea that it must probably be
the most insane and monstrous spectacle which was ever seen in
God's free nature.

On the other hand, any severe reaction produced in Germany
in the face of this Jewish conduct and political procedure can
thus be explained." Dr. Scheidl, Geschicte der
Verfemung Deutschlands

"I wish to confirm in the most vigorous manner the
declaration that we Jews stand on the side of Great Britain
and will fight for democracy. For this reason we place
ourselves, in great things and small, under the comprehensive
leadership of the British Government. The Jewish representation
is ready to enter into prompt agreement, in order to employ
every human-Jewish energy, technology, resources and abilities
against Germany."

"War would undoubtedly serve the purpose of all Jews,
Communists and doctrinaires in the world for whom Nazism is
anathema, but it would be a terrible risk today for Germany
herself. . . that this is not apparent to Hitler I cannot
believe." Lord Halifax, British Foreign Secretary

"In losing Germany, Jewry lost a territory from which
it exerted power. Therefore it was determined to re-conquer
it." - Louis Marschalko, Hungarian journalist and
writer

"He (Henderson) said further that the hostile attitude
in Britain was the work of Jews and enemies of the Nazis."
- A.J.P. Taylor, British historian

IN THE INTERESTS OF
BALANCE

In the interests of fairness and
balance it should be stated with equal emphasis that Jewish
opposition to Hitler's Germany was far from being as universal
as Zionist organisations will openly admit to. In Germany
itself, Jewish organisations who through their close proximity
to events, knew that acts of anti-Semitism were blown up out of
all proportion by Jews abroad in an effort to justify the
boycotts, and issued many protests:

"To the Embassy of the United States:

We became aware of the propaganda in your country about
alleged cruelties against the Jews in Germany. We therefore
consider it our duty, not only in our own interests as German
patriots, but also for the sake of truth, to comment on these
incidents.

Mistreatments and excesses have indeed occurred, and we are
far from glossing these over. But this is hardly avoidable in
any kind of revolution. We attach great significance to the
fact that these authorities, where it was at all possible to
interfere, have done so against outrages that have come to our
knowledge. In all cases, these deeds were committed by
irresponsible elements who kept in hiding. We know that the
government and all leading authorities most strongly disapprove
of the violations that occurred.

But we also feel that now is the time to move away from the
irresponsible agitation on the part of so-called Jewish
intellectuals living abroad. These men, most of whom never
considered themselves German nationals, but pretended to be
champions for those of their own faith, abandoned them at a
critical time and fled the country. They lost, therefore, the
right to speak out on German-Jewish affairs. The accusations
which they are hurling from their safe hiding places, are
injurious to Germany and German-Jews; their reports are vastly
exaggerated.

We ask the US Embassy to forward this letter to the US
without delay, and we are accepting full responsibility for
its content. Since we know that a large-scale propaganda
campaign is to be launched next Monday, we would appreciate it
if the American public be informed of this letter by this
day." - Reichsbund Judischer Frontsoldaten, e.V
(Jewish Association of German ex-Servicemen)

These Jewish front-line veterans
issued a further declaration:

"The atrocity propaganda is lying. The
originators are politically and economically motivated. The same
Jewish writers who allow themselves to be misused for this
purpose, used to scoff at us veterans in earlier years. By
raising your voice as honourable soldiers against the
unchivalrous and degrading treatment meted out to Germany for
the last fourteen years, you will most effectively contribute to
reassure this country." - Ingrid Weckert, Feuerzeichen,
Tubingen, 1981, p.52/54

THE ZIONIST ASSOCIATION OF GERMANY

"In a declaration transmitted by
the Jewish Telegraphers Union to the entire Jewish world press
on March 17th, we have already emphatically protested against
anti-German propaganda. We have objected to mendacious atrocity
reports and reckless sensationalist news, and we are repeating
it today in public. We oppose any attempts to misuse Jewish
affairs for the political interests of other states and groups.
The defence of the national rights of the Jews and the
safeguarding of their economic position cannot and must not be
linked with any political actions directed against Germany and
the reputation of the Reich." - March 26th, 1933 witness2.htm